Participant Info
- First Name
- Jessica
- Last Name
- Purdy
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- j.purdy@mmu.ac.uk
- Affiliation
- Manchester Metropolitan University
- Website URL
- https://mmu.academia.edu/JessicaPurdy
- Keywords
- book history, Tudor history, religious history, English Reformation, history of libraries, history of reading, marginalia
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I received my PhD in Early Modern Book History from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2021. My thesis examined the creation and use of parish libraries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and analysed surviving marks of readership within parish library books in order to understand how people read and interpreted these texts.
More generally, my research interests centre on the history of libraries, the history of the book and reading, the Tudor and Stuart royal courts, women in power in the medieval and early modern periods, and Reformation and religious history.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @jessicagpurdy
- Country Focus
- England
- Expertise by Geography
- England, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- Medieval, Pre-17th century, 17th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Book History, Libraries & Archives, Literary History, Material Culture, Religion
